API TTS
API TTS should measure time to first playable audio separately from time to completion. Connection setup, queueing, synthesis, transfer, decoding, and playback can each dominate a different workload.
Review current samples, pricing, limits, and documentation before production use.
What this page helps you evaluate
Build a speech integration with explicit timing, reliability, audio-format, and cost boundaries.
Integration path
Measure the whole speech request, not one vague latency number
Send a validated request over the documented endpoint.
Track acknowledgement, first audio, completion, and failure.
Decode the documented format and apply retry or fallback policy.
Production readiness
- Keep API keys out of source code and browser bundles.
- Choose compatible voice and model identifiers.
- Measure warm and cold paths separately.
- Log request IDs and sanitized timing data without user text.
Developer brief
Design API TTS around observable boundaries
API TTS should measure time to first playable audio separately from time to completion. Connection setup, queueing, synthesis, transfer, decoding, and playback can each dominate a different workload.
Use the documented REST or WebSocket contract, protect API keys, validate responses, and record percentiles and errors—not a single best-case request.
Request contract
Validate model, voice, text, language, and output settings for API TTS. Use one approved API TTS asset as the reference, then compare every candidate output against the same listening notes. Include the most consequential failure case in the API TTS pilot rather than postponing it until after automation.
Timing model
Timestamp connection, acknowledgement, first playable audio, and completion. Record the script revision, voice, model, reviewer, and decision so the API TTS result can be reproduced after a later change. Document any manual cleanup required by API TTS; repeated cleanup belongs in the cost and capacity model.
Failure path
Use bounded retries, idempotent behavior where supported, and clear fallbacks. Define a rollback for API TTS before automating volume, including which approved output or delivery path remains available. Monitor corrections and rejected output for API TTS; a rising review burden can matter before a technical failure appears.
What the product currently documents
Fixed public voice samples are available for review before purchase.
Samples are fixed previews, not a free custom-generation endpoint.
Review sourceCurrent plans, balances, rates, limits, and commercial terms are published on the pricing page.
Pricing can change; use the linked page as the current source.
Review sourceThe current public Pay As You Go plan lists 2 concurrent requests.
Plan limits can change; verify the linked pricing page before deployment.
Review sourceThe documented v3 API supports asynchronous text-to-speech generation and status tracking.
Reviewed 2026-07-24.
Review sourceThe documented WebSocket endpoint streams live raw PCM float32 mono audio at 24 kHz for supported models.
This is an audio-format contract, not a numeric latency claim.
Review sourceQuestions specific to api tts
What should a low-latency benchmark report?
Report time to first playable audio and full completion separately, with percentiles, errors, workload, region, and connection state.
Can the WebSocket chunks be treated as MP3?
No. Follow the current streaming documentation for the live raw PCM format and use the completed file URL when appropriate.
Where should an API key be stored?
Keep it in a server-side secret store or environment configuration, never in source code or client-side JavaScript.
Test API TTS with your own acceptance criteria.
Review current samples, pricing, limits, and documentation before production use.